Shopee Indonesia Stops Selling Products from Foreign Sellers

Shopee Indonesia Stop Selling Products from Overseas Sellers

Shopee Indonesia Stops Selling Products from Foreign Sellers

Dream - The e-commerce platform Shoppe has decided to stop selling products from foreign sellers (cross border) or imports starting from Wednesday, October 4, 2023. This decision was made in response to the newly released legal regulations by the Ministry of Trade.

The following is the translation of the given 'Bahasa' text to 'English' while preserving any html tags: "It is known that the Ministry of Trade issued Ministerial Regulation No.31\/2023, which is a revision of Ministerial Regulation No.50\/2020. The regulation contains provisions regarding Business Licensing, Advertising, Development, and Supervision of Business Actors in Electronic Trading Systems."

Cross-border transactions on Shopee have so far accounted for less than 1 percent. In addition, the cross-border mechanism implemented is also in accordance with the processes stipulated in the applicable legislation, such as taxation.

Apart from its very small contribution, Head of Public Policy Shopee Indonesia, Radityo Triatmojo also ensures that cross-border products sold on Shopee are not directly competing with MSME products.

"Because we have closed 14 cross-border product categories that compete with MSME products in accordance with the direction of the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs in 2021."

According to him, quoted from Merdeka.com, Friday, October 6, 2023.

Radit said, so far the Cross border conducted by Shopee Indonesia aims to ensure that local products also have the same opportunities and equal chances to access the export market directly. Currently, there are already more than 20 million local SME products available in cross-border markets in the ASEAN, East Asia, and Latin America regions.

"We will continue to strive, despite the closure of cross-border sellers in Indonesia, to not affect the ongoing export activities of Indonesian products."

kata Radit.

"He emphasized that Shopee is committed to developing local products not only in the domestic market but also in overseas markets. One of them is through activities carried out at 10 Shopee MSME Campuses scattered throughout Indonesia."

It is known that the drafting of Permendag No.31/2023 is to create a healthy PMSE ecosystem, while considering dynamic technological advancements. Secondly, it supports the empowerment of MSMEs and domestic PMSE actors, and thirdly, it enhances consumer protection domestically.

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